My Michael
Amos Oz
My Michael
Amos Oz
A novel about love and loss from one of our greatest living writers
One of Amos Oz’s earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize.
‘His characters.ride the river of history’ New Yorker
‘A beautiful work of great depth and lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country’s people as much as a moving love story’ Arthur Miller
1950s Jerusalem.
Hannah Gonen has just married and is thrilled and pained by her young well-meaning husband, Michael. Haunted by her dreams of two boys who disappeared from Jerusalem after the establishment of the state of Israel, Hannah gradually withdraws from her husband into a private world of fantasy and suppressed desires.
This 2015 edition includes an updated introduction from the author.
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